Web Developers, Kickstart Your Morning With a Shot of AppleScript

24th July 2017

Mac developers have access to AppleScript, a language designed for simple inter-app communication. Apple's ScriptEditor IDE exports these scripts to executables, which we use to automate all kinds of things. In particular though, the tedious tasks of opening up a set of Terminal windows and configuring development environments at the start of a session.

Here's an example AppleScript that boots a local development stack: a Homestead server and an Angular frontend.